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DeadHearts


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What is your opinion on "normalcy bias"
#14782546 - 07/17/11 04:47 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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"The normalcy bias refers to a mental state people enter when facing a disaster. It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects. This often results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of the government to include the populace in its disaster preparations. The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred then it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation."
What do you make of this and have you personally ever experienced this on any level??
Personally I have experienced this on family health issues and denial and such.
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SprewellSleeve



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Re: What is your opinion on "normalcy bias" [Re: DeadHearts]
#14782552 - 07/17/11 04:49 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Probably many times.
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Re: What is your opinion on "normalcy bias" [Re: SprewellSleeve]
#14782557 - 07/17/11 04:51 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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I think the normalcy bias was one of Hitler's most powerful tools.
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DeadHearts


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Re: What is your opinion on "normalcy bias" [Re: CarnivalBarker]
#14782561 - 07/17/11 04:52 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
CarnivalBarker said: I think the normalcy bias was one of Hitler's most powerful tools.
It certainly worked in his favor didnt it.
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Re: What is your opinion on "normalcy bias" [Re: DeadHearts]
#14782866 - 07/17/11 06:16 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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I have high anxiety so this is never an issue for me. If anything I over analyze every thing that could happen in any given situation. For example: If someone is driving a car erratically with me in it all I can think about is the extreme pain of my bones breaking, heart stopping, and eventually my death. It makes me extremely cautious, ESPECIALLY if im not in control of the situation.
Every time someone smokes a cigarette, drives drunk, doesn't wear a seat-belt...ETC they are experiencing the normalcy bias. Teens especially experience this (which is why teenagers think their invincible) I think my lack of the bias has caused me too miss out on some experiences, but it has also kept me safer in certain situations.
People who take that many risks in a vehicle probably have not been in a serious accident. They don't understand how painful. scary and awful it could be. They dont understand their friends could die as a rsult of their actions...normalcy bias is just people being retarded lol .
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Re: What is your opinion on "normalcy bias" [Re: DeadHearts]
#14782882 - 07/17/11 06:24 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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I think its normal (lol) to a point but then just becomes plain denial. Humans do that though. We are very selective about what we "see". R.A.W describes this well with his reality tunnels concept. In short people see precisely what they want to see it to some extent. For example; If you don't want to believe that you are arrogant then you just deny it and forever wonder why people don't like you or if you don't want to believe in ET contact despite billions of credible reports with supporting evidence coming in worldwide then you will not and write them all off as delusions.
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